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McGrath left the cafe before the police arrived but was later found nearby by officers who spoke to him. He was not arrested at this point.

He reacted angrily to the woman called the police and contacted her the following day asking "which imbecile called the police?"

He would later taunt her with pictures of a brown sugar packet on Twitter and brought it up on different occasions.

The woman was next contacted by McGrath at the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival in August 2015 where she was preparing for a show.

He is unhinged and I am worried about what he might do.

Police statementfrom victim

On August 5, 6 and 7 he sent her text messages before approaching her when he again smelled "strongly" of alcohol and seemed "agitated and angry".

In November he contacted husband at his work pretending to be someone else, the court heard.

The court head that in a "cowardly rant" he told the man that he had "hundreds of mesmerisingly beautiful but quite graphic photos of the complainant."

In February 2016 McGrath saw the woman jogging with her then 15-year-old daughter in Cambridge.

He was on a bike at the time and followed behind them. When they wouldn't speak to him left and shouted "personality disorders are clearly genetic", making a clear reference to the woman's daughter, the court heard.

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Rory McGrath, full name Patrick Rory McGrath, is a British comedian and TV personality who is most known for his work as a panellist on They Think It’s All Over.

Born and raised in Cornwall, he eventually moved to Cambridge to study for for his degree, earning a 2:2 in modern languages from Emmanuel College.

The 60-year-old star has been married twice, and has two children.

The TV star rose to fame through the eighties comedy programme Who Dares Wins and is also well known for being team captain on quiz They Think It's All Over.

He also co-founded Hat Trick Productions, the company behind Father Ted and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and worked their until 1992.

The comedian previously received a caution for three offences of assault by beating in 2013 while he was "heavily in drink" in May that year.

He pleaded guilty in court to harassing a married woman over a period of fourteen months.

McGrath the continued contacting the woman until July 17, 2016 when the woman received a picture message from McGrath's wife Nicola.

It was a picture of a stain on their sofa and said: "Remember my sofa? I am still trying to get your menstrual blood off it."

This finally prompted the woman to call the police.

Her partner later told police: "He is unhinged and I am worried about what he might do to the complainant."

The woman contacted police on August 4 and gave a statement, in which she said.

McGrath also made his name in Three Men in a Boat, pictured with his co-stars in 2005

Sentencing him, district judge Ken Sheridan said: "This was a persistent, consistent and controlling imposition of yourself on the victim and those close to her.

"The prosecutor has outlined on a number of occasions over a period of about 14 months the lengths that you went to to impose yourself on the victim and has detailed that affect that it had on her, her daughter in particular and her husband.

"The strong mitigating factor in your case is that fact that you have pleaded guilty and I am also bound to take into account the fact that you have been on bail for approximately six months which conditions restricting your movement and I am told there are no allegations that you have breached these conditions."